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Commit dd524b7f authored by Jiachen Zhang's avatar Jiachen Zhang Committed by Miklos Szeredi
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ovl: drop WARN_ON() dentry is NULL in ovl_encode_fh()



Some code paths cannot guarantee the inode have any dentry alias. So
WARN_ON() all !dentry may flood the kernel logs.

For example, when an overlayfs inode is watched by inotifywait (1), and
someone is trying to read the /proc/$(pidof inotifywait)/fdinfo/INOTIFY_FD,
at that time if the dentry has been reclaimed by kernel (such as
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches), there will be a WARN_ON(). The
printed call stack would be like:

    ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
    show_mark_fhandle+0x4a/0xf0
    ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
    ? seq_vprintf+0x30/0x50
    ? seq_printf+0x53/0x70
    ? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
    inotify_fdinfo+0x70/0x90
    show_fdinfo.isra.4+0x53/0x70
    seq_show+0x130/0x170
    seq_read+0x153/0x440
    vfs_read+0x94/0x150
    ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
    do_syscall_64+0x59/0x1e0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

So let's drop WARN_ON() to avoid kernel log flooding.

Reported-by: default avatarHongbo Yin <yinhongbo@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTianci Zhang <zhangtianci.1997@bytedance.com>
Fixes: 8ed5eec9

 ("ovl: encode pure upper file handles")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
parent ded53656
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